Potential stocks in the encrypted world: Web3 game track project inventory

Gaming is often the biggest killer app on new platforms, with more than 3 billion video game players in the world today, and 250 million of the younger generation will become lifetime gamers. From the birth of video games to today, a vibrant consumer ecology has developed around games. At the same time, games are also a huge social network with a very high stickiness. As one of the most important ways for people to entertain in the digital age, games are creating huge output value. In the world of Web3, games have also been regarded as potentially important application areas.

According to research by Bain, by 2025, the value of the gaming market will grow by more than 50% to more than $300 billion. As consumers' demand for games continues to grow, players' requirements for game experience continue to increase. The combination of games and blockchain technology provides players with a brand-new gaming experience. At present, more and more games use blockchain technology to realize player ownership of game characters and accessories, and better virtual experience.

In May 2022, crypto venture capital giant a16z announced the launch of its first game fund, Games Fund One, with a scale of US$600 million. Over the past year, the fund has made 25 investments. The statistics shown in Cointelegraph's March 2023 blockchain game report also show the growth and potential of Web3 games: In addition to a large number of funds and game projects, Web3 games accounted for 49% of all on-chain transactions in 2022, and From 2021 to 2022, the average daily active users will increase by 60%, showing the growth of the user base of Web3 games and the significant potential of this track relative to other tracks.

There are many ways to classify games, which can be divided from the aspects of interactivity, playability, and scalability. In addition to the attributes of Web3, they can also be divided from the degree of decentralization. For example, according to decentralization from low to high, Web3 games can be divided into three types: optional on-chain games, half-chain games and full-chain games. Among them, the optional on-chain game is essentially a form of traditional Web2 game + game IP derivative NFT, which is not a real Web3 game; half-chain game is a common form in Web3 games, which is a way to store player assets on the chain. However, the actual game operation is still in the game form under the chain. The half-chain game solves the problem of verifying asset ownership and asset programmability, focusing on the items and property in the game; the full-chain game is a truly decentralized game , By using the blockchain instead of the traditional centralized game server, all player data is stored on the chain, indexed and written, which endows the game with the characteristics of persistence, anti-censorship and independent development by the community.

In this article, veDAO Research Institute will select 3 distinctive categories from different game classifications to classify Web3 games, and take stock of 9 high-quality Web3 game projects.

Traditional Web3 games

Traditional Web3 games refer to most common P2E (Play-to-Earn) games, which usually have the characteristics of general interactivity, simple screen, P2E effect as the core, and strong community drive. They are one of the common forms of Web3 games , from the point of view of decentralization, it belongs to half-chain games. Compared with Web2 games, this kind of Web3 games are not very playable, so the users they attract are mainly Web3 groups. Just like after the emergence of Unreal 5 engine, 8 bit pixel wind games still have a large number of players. The playability of games includes not only interaction, graphics, but also narrative and community participation; this is especially true in the Web3 field: gamers even Can participate in the construction of the game.

• AI Rein

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AI Rein is a Japanese global NFT project with the theme of the AI future world. It has a unique AI Motion technology that allows NFT holders to control their avatars in the metaverse through the front camera of the computer. AI Rein's first NFT series is a PFP for future AI world citizens. AI Rein also plans to launch a blockchain-based 2D pixel-style game, allowing players to experience AI technology in a virtual world full of adventure and challenges. Players can earn rewards by staking their AI Rein NFTs, which can be used in-game.

• Chainers

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Chainers is a metaverse game focused on NFTs and community-driven development, where players can access the game for free, while also encouraging players to create, contribute, and build more content. The positioning of Chainers is "Play, trade, and create". Players experience, socialize, and interact in the game; and create income in it, and the fun and economy of the game are realized simultaneously.

*Degen Zoo

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Built by DAOMaker founder Chris Zaknun and former MakerDAO development engineers, among others, the game will be developed on an ultra-low budget of only $20,000 and is scheduled to be completed in as little as 30 days. The game is inspired by the CryptoZoo NFT scam. The Degen Zoo project team hopes to complete the game construction with a small amount of money and a small amount of time, to prove the incompetence of the founder of CryptoZoo, Logan Paul, and to satirize such metaverse game scams that deceive investors. In addition, as a charity game NFT project, all profits of the project will be donated to endangered animal charities. One of the purposes of the project is to make people aware of caring for animals and nature, and teach players through games when animals are killed or species What happens when you go extinct.

AAA Game

In simple terms, 3A games are games with high development costs, long development cycles, and high resource consumption. This track is very similar to the public chain, and it will take a relatively long time to see the real results. For ordinary investors, as long as they get on the early boat of the 3A game, they will generally have relatively good returns in the future. At the same time, the 3A-level Web3 game will be a block chain project with great potential to break the circle. As long as the team of this type of game seriously controls the cost and develops the product, it will finally deliver a truly playable, high-quality game that meets the characteristics of Web3. 3A games, Web3 may usher in a large number of Web2 users.

• Delysium

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Delysium is the world's first playable AAA blockchain game. A true open-world, vivid AI-driven and fully player-owned MMO that allows players to create a variety of personalized physical assets, narrative assets, and native AI MetaBeings. By distributing numerous AI-driven MetaBeings across player-created and owned experiences, Delysium is building immersive, supremely dynamic and dynamically generated open world experiences for all web3 pioneers around the world.

• Wildcard Alliance

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Wildcard Alliance is a 3A PVP game based on the Polygon chain that combines real-time strategy, multiplayer online competition, and card games. It plans to create a decentralized and autonomous Web3 competitive social platform. Bringing the thrill of competition to gamers, pushing the boundaries of how exciting video games can be, and how they can be played and watched. Create an evergreen competitive game that is "easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master". At the same time, it provides players with the fun of collecting, making Wildcard an IP that people really care about and a community that people want to join.

• Citizen Conflict

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Citizen Conflict is a free Web3 MMO shooter game built with Unreal Engine 5, developed by QORPO Game Studio (formerly known as Crypto Citizen), and deployed on the BSC chain. Citizen Conflict is set in the dystopian world of the Aether Islands, where each match is a fight for survival and valuable loot, featuring both world-bound and battle royale gameplay. The game itself will be completely free, and to enhance the gaming experience, players will be able to purchase or win in-game assets in the form of digital collectible NFTs, which are optional but not required.

Fully On-chain Game

Compared with optional on-chain games and half-chain games, full-chain games are less playable, and the early cold start and ecological positive cycle are much more difficult. However, in the mid-term development, the inflation of community governance assets and other aspects will be much smoother, and even stronger ecological moats and network effects will erupt.

In a truly decentralized environment for full-chain games, the economic system is driven by player actions and decisions, rather than being controlled by game developers or central institutions. Players acquire and manage in-game assets and resources through trade, cooperation, or competition. At the same time, players can also independently participate in the governance of the game and formulate rules to realize the autonomy of the game world. This player-driven economic system and autonomous game world bring players a richer and more free gaming experience.

• PandaFarm

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Panda Farm aims to build a fully on-chain, panda-themed game metaverse. Users can profit from the prize pool while participating in each game and competition. Panda Farm is a panda game platform built around the theme of pandas. All panda-themed games are built on the blockchain. Panda Farm aims to bring blockchain into mainstream gaming by providing a real-world simulation of pandas, combining the advantages of digital construction and cryptocurrencies, in order to appeal to crypto and non-crypto game enthusiasts as well as panda lovers. In the future, players can create their own paradise in PandaFarm, summon more alien creatures to play with pandas, integrate different IPs into the same world view, build their own farmland, and choose farmers through decentralized management. BAMBOO tokens can be locked by customizing small animal NFT.

• MetaLine

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MetaLine is an open, transparent and inclusive world. All information, assets and game content in the game have been decentralized. MetaLine is a large-scale online game of navigation, adventure, and strategy based on Web3. It has six system modules, including production and trading systems, upgrade systems, port systems, combat systems, NFT systems, and an ecosystem. Through the cooperation and association between different mission systems, you can get rich gameplay and build your own maritime empire. With the gradual release of missions, the built-in port system also opens the door to the Metaverse for more users.

• Arcadeum

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Arcadeum is a decentralized casino, fully on-chain and self-regulated, with a provable, albeit low, competitive house edge. Staking is facilitated by liquidity pools through which depositors receive losses and pay out wins. Random number generation is verifiably fair through a custom API 3 QRNG integration.

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Web3 games have huge potential to bring new possibilities to the gaming world. Game creators should never lose sight of a game's core priority: entertainment. Likewise, obtaining assets in a Web3 game project is part of the game process and should not be the sole purpose of user participation in the game. Therefore, for Web3 games, it is not enough to only focus on P2E. At the same time, in order to realize a real Web3 game, the game needs to be built on a bottom-up protocol, and the token model is used as an auxiliary means to ensure the sustainability of the game economy. In such games, players can truly own assets and break free from the control and restrictions of centralized institutions or platforms in free transactions.

Web3 games are likely to be one of the main ways for Web2 users to enter Web3 in the future. Only by attracting users and creating a dynamic and creative Web3 game ecosystem that can attract players for a long time can more value of Web3 games be released and Web3 usher in a new round of user migration.

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